2012 - Putting it out There

I have my list of goal and races for 2012 ! Me being the dork I am know i need to put it out there, so why not do it on the blog with no followers

*ahem*

I will run 1000 miles in 2012
I will run my first full marathon in Florence Italy on November 25th ish
I will run a half sometime in the spring - having a hard time deciding
I will run the local half in August
I will run/swim and bike a sprint tri....
I will get better at cooking healthy meals that everyone likes and everyone will sit at the meal to eat! If this was a vlog there would be table smacking to show just how serious I am about this!
I will do more work personal training - SQL, etc - boring yes, necessary and good for me too though
I will get followers on this blog and hopefully win just one giveaway
Also, I will pay down the line of credit...

There that is that....

Cheers
C.

Snows

Well it's officially a day off for all of us! Actually the first day of P's 3 weeks off and a week or so into my 6 weeks holidays, plus the little ones are off for remembrance day. Which is, a stat holiday here in the NWT and was one of the few nice surprises when I moved up here. Our moment of silence today, happened to fall during a time out. Not what I had pictured but we did read Flanders Field and talked about the wars which turned into a weird conversation about helmets.

Today:
We slept in - till 7, we were clearly up all night partying like rockstars
Woke up to big fluffy snowflakes and it's maybe -5 degrees. Snap on the trax, For a glorious run in the snow today or so I thought. We have bought a house on a hill, which means the run home is always uphill. Big picture this will be cool build strength , yada, etc but right now I think I am going to puke every time i finish the climb to the top. Not cool, not cool at all. So today we had a very hard 3 miles in the snow @ 10:00 minutes. After Vegas I am working on becoming blazing fast. When I got home I made a hot buttered rum and it was delicious.

In other news, there is a small window where running in the winter here doesn't mean you are commpletely insane. That time is nigh, pre-40 type weather! However running here with no reflective gear @ any point in the winter means you are insane as the days are getting short and the road I ran on is actually technically part of one of the major ice roads in Canada. I have been trying to be as safe as I can; bright clothes running in the most visible areas but I can't shake the feeling that I will be smacked by a Mack truck while rocking out to Kanye West. I think reflective gear will be my must buy in Vegas. I also think I am the new wacko on the road ! I am hoping for some new nickname like white lightening or whatever

This blog needs better posts and pictures.

This is a start ;)





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Location:Somewhere very north on a medium sized lake

Eating and Running

I've fallen into a new run day snacking regime and I love it! Recently at work they started cutting up oranges as part of the morning snack bar. I'm addicted, I pack an over flowing baggie on the days I plan to run and the effect has been fantastic. When I was in high school oranges were the snack for my basketball team during half time. I'm convinced that my taste buds have memories and the second I eat these beautiful orange slices I go back like I was in Harry Potter dream-bowl-thing.  I feel athletic! Like I can run faster! Like I should be pivoting and doing the weave!Stressing over boys and homework and not appreciating how good of shape I was in. I'm on a tangent,I digress and apologize.



Don't they look juicy and tasty

The second half of my snacking duo is white toast soaked in butter. I need butter, I can hear my whole body demand butter after a run. Who am I to argue.

 My random rule is if its natural/not chemical food I can put it in my belly. So post run, you can find me with sticky orange slice fingers and a shiny face from my butter and toast.

My run for the day is pretty simple 2 quick miles at lunch at about a 10:00 pace. Then back to the day job of geologizing. Boyfriend, The Engineer, has flown from work to home so the next 6 nights will be filled with musical movies that have been put into the intolerable movie category by the boy.

What memories do your taste buds store? Geeks like me want to know

Soon C.

Too Eager perhaps

I am sitting at my desk with a red face and a racing heart. No, its not driller,drilling,geoworld anger management issues. I decided it would be wise to run my 4 miles today on my 1 hour lunch break. Not to bad when you consider my office, the TM and my "room" are basically in the same building. Which makes everyone of us feel a bit hamster in the habitrail system from time to time but that will be another post (which will include engineers,wood chips and my need for clean non-re breathed air)

I ran slow because our 'cardio room' has no ventilation, temperatures hover around 27 degrees Celsius. I consider this acclimatization for the Vegas half. I did 4 miles in 44 minutes. I thought I was feeling great until i hit the stairs to return to my warm n fuzzy cubicle. Immediately my legs turned to lead and I thought uh oh! Atleast the boyfriend is still here to snuggle me and my transformer legs for one more day.

By the way if you google for transformer legs. You will find tattoos worthy of

www.mytattoosucks.com

I thought transformer legs was the perfect way to describe my powerful (they did carry me a few miles) but scarily suddenly stiff legs. I am submitting that to urban dictionary, I need to put something in there that doesn't immediately give me a mental image that leaves me shaking with remorse at my own curiousity.

Random Picture of Things that make me happy - Cute Vikings or more precisely a cute viking

Soon
Charlene

I have an Addiction

I believe we all have random things that we become slightly addicted to;

Here is my picto list of my ultimate must haves for today. We can talk about the depth of my addiction at a later date *cough* full kitchen cabinet dedicated to various teas*cough*

Matcha - I even have a preferred supplier - It eventually is delicious and is very good for you.

Tomato's - In absolutely every aspect, but especially fire/oven roasted.. There was a point in time that I would pop a tray of oven roasted tomato's in the oven as soon as i got back from dropping the kidlets off at school and they would be ready and waiting for lunch.

and one non food related one - Caturday on Fark.com.  Funny Cat pictures with captions on a weekly basis.. A small pleasure,  when you work two weeks away from home with a 12 hour day, days broken up by kittens can make everything OK. I actually have to ration it to one page per geological exercise

After all that today I will be running another virtual race. This one is from Moms Run This Town and is being done at the absolute last minute in our sauna like training room at the mine. Once again on Lunch but how else do you get a treadmill when there is only one for 400 people  :(  (I wish i knew how to make a slightly bitchy/annoyed emoticon)

Soon
C.

I'm new at this

Trying to keep myself somewhat motivated to run while I am at work. So far bribing myself with cheddar and garlic red lobster look-a-like biscuits seems to be helping. By helping, I mean I have consumed so much butter that it would be a health danger not to run...

I might as well start from the beginning about me

I work in the mining industry.. I am a mom to two incredible little people. Sofia - who is six and the biggest gleek ever and her only slightly smaller brother Nole - who is five and very tolerant of his sister. Together they are a super storm of interesting, keeping me on my toes, asking questions and opening my eyes to new conversations I didn't think I'd ever have. I have had to make a rule that when painting animals you can not give them boobie eyes. This picture explains their whole relationship in a way I never could

More random details and running related stuff to come.. I am now off to hunt down a mile tracker for this things. Wish me luck